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Variety-The Childrens Charity of the United States
Act as the national cooperative for all variety chapters in the united states through a regional network of tents and representatives.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 45% of VARIETY-THE CHILDRENS CHARITY OF THE UNITED STATES’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $205k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $353k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VARIETY OF SO CALIFORNIA | $85,932 |
| VARIETY OF TEXAS | $74,463 |
| VARIETY OF NEW YORK | $70,555 |
| VARIETY OF FLORIDA | $65,485 |
| VARIETY-NATIONAL CAPITAL REG | $56,153 |
| VARIETY OF ILLINOIS | $44,041 |
| VARIETY OF GEORGIA | $38,166 |
| VARIETY OF DELAWARE VALLEY | $28,905 |
| AMC CARES GREATER HORIZONS | $27,109 |
| VARIETY OF PITTSBURGH | $24,613 |
| VARIETY OF IOWA | $16,643 |
| VARIETY OF DETROIT | $14,705 |
| VARIETY OF EASTERN TENNESSEE | $10,667 |
| VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL | $8,000 |
| VARIETY OF BUFFALO | $7,935 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $146k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
9 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $144k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- VTVARIETY - THE CHILDRENS CHARITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA TENT 254× · 2020–2024 · $174k · revenue 0%
- VTVARIETY - THE CHILDREN'S CHARITY OF FLORIDA INC4× · 2020–2024 · $110k · revenue -23% · 65% of their budget
- VCVariety-The Children's Charity of New York Inc3× · 2020–2024 · $90k · revenue -1% · 80% of their budget
Funded once
- VCVARIETY CLUB OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIAone grant, 2020 · $44k · revenue -14%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $12k
- VOVARIETY OF KANSAS CITYone grant, 2022 · $5k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To deliver life-changing programs that give Coachella Valley children a better future.
We empower children who are sick, disadvantaged, or living with disabilities through life-changing programs that provide medical care, mobility, education, and support to live without limits.
Variety empowers over 1,650 children with physical and developmental disabilities (also referred to as children with special needs) through programs that highlight ability rather than disability. our holistic approach includes giving…
Enriching the lives of children with physical or developmental special needs and their families.
Act as the national cooperative for all variety chapters in the united states through a regional network of tents and representatives. it shall help coordinate resources, develop programs and cooperative fundraising strategies.…
To provide services to children with disabilities to best address their needs to build independence and self confidence, by engaging them in vocational, recreational, social and educational enrichment activities while connecting their…
The programs offered by the center allowed parents to remain self-sufficient and productive citizens by providing quality care for children and families in greatset need. due to lack or financial resources the center closed october 2018.
Variety child learning center (vclc) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that provides programs and services that meet the individual educational, therapeutic, and social-emotional needs of children with and without disabilities.…
Charity for children, inc. provides support to children in central new york suffering from childhood disorders, diseases and disabilities. such support is offered in the form of medical insurance reimbursement assistance, transportation…
To educate children with learning differences through the use of an individualized multidisciplinary approach so that each child achieves his or her maximum potential.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Variety the Childrens Charity of Illinois and the most unlike its peers is Variety Club of Northern California. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 20 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds VARIETY - THE CHILDRENS CHARITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA TENT 25 ↗
- Who funds VARIETY - THE CHILDREN'S CHARITY OF FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds Variety-The Children's Charity of New York Inc ↗
- Who funds VARIETY THE CHILDREN'S CHARITY OF TEXAS ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S CHARITY OF THE NATIONAL CAPITAL REGION INC ↗
- Who funds VARIETY THE CHILDRENS CHARITY OF ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds VARIETY-THE CHILDRENS CHARITY OF GA ↗
- Who funds VARIETY CLUB OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds Variety the Childrens Charity ↗
- Who funds VARIETY THE CHILDREN'S CHARITY OF THE DELAWARE VALLEY ↗
- Who funds Greater Horizons ↗
- Who funds VARIETY - THE CHILDREN'S CHARITY OF IOWA ↗
- Who funds VARIETY CLUB CHARITY FOR CHILDREN DBA VARIETY THE CHILDREN'S CHARITY ↗
- Who funds VARIETY OF EASTERN TENNESSEE ↗
- Who funds Vanderbilt University Medical Center ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S REHABILITATION FOUNDATION OF THE VARIETY CLUB OF BUFFALO INC ↗
- Who funds VARIETY OF GREATER KANSAS CITY TENT 8 ↗
- Who funds VARIETY - THE CHILDRENS CHARITY OF SOUTHERN NEVADA ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Charities Aid Foundation America · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Variety-The Childrens Charity of the United States funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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